This Clerc Center produced webcast is designed to increase knowledge among early interventionists, this research-based webcast addresses how deaf and hard of hearing babies acquire language and why one should sign with babies as early as possible. Babies are busy...

Patrick Otema, 15 was born profoundly deaf. In the remote area of Uganda where he lives there are no schools for deaf children, and he has never had a conversation. Raymond Okkelo, a sign language teacher, hopes to change all this and offer Patrick a way out of the...

When deaf children are learning their first language, in many cases their parents are encouraged to focus on spoken language fluency if at all possible. However, a new academic article published in the June issue of Language argues for the necessity of teaching deaf...

What constitutes a quality language program for deaf and hard of hearing children is a broad topic and for the sake of brevity we will limit the discussion here to 4 key components: Assessment, Qualified Instructors, Language Planning, and Parental Involvement. As...

Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL2) is pleased to bring you the second of their planned monthly emails with information share research findings from the Science of Learning Center development, links to resources, and plenty more. This month’s topic is...